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10054 = Winsock error 10054 is "Connection reset by peer", or "An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host". The error means exactly what it says - the remote host closed the connection unexpectedly. This happens when a connection is aborted, and there is no tcp disconnection handshake (fin, fin ack, ack) , but instead a rst (reset) flag is sent. A reset flag aborts the connection, and can be sent when:

- The device is suddenly stopped, rebooted, or loses its network connection.

- The device uses a "hard close". With IP*Works! a hard close never occurs unless you specifically set the Linger property (IPPort, IPDaemon) to false.

- A "half-open connection" state occurs. That is, when one device not been receiving acknowledgements of the data it has sent, or it receives acknowledgement for an unrecognized sequence or ack number, it will send a rst flag to reset the connection. This particular case could have a variety of its own causes, such as misconfigured proxy/firewall or network quality issues resulting in too many dropped packets.

Install the SP2 version of the client agent on the target system.

I see no reason for a Run Now job to work any differently that a Scheduled. Does a Scheduled job fail even if run right away?

Something is preventing the client agent from working on the remote system.

Try stopping and restarting the CA Universal Agent service.
Try restarting the server.
Check for some application running at the time that accesses the file system, or that controls communication such as defrag, virus scan, firewall type stuff.

Check the client agent log.
program files/ca/arcserve backup client agent for windows/ntagent.log and job logs in the LOG subdirectory.

Set the agent into debug and check the log.
hkey local machine/software/ca arcserve backup/clientagent/parameters/debug

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